The strokes

I'm making a few Kanji flashcards.
An obvious question comes up: how the heck do you write them?!  Would be good to learn a few rules rather than every character...

• Wikipedia (as ever) has a heavy going but useful article with some general rules on stroke order.  

There are plenty of sites showing how to draw the kanji:

• The animation comes from Saiga-jp.com, which has plenty of others.  I laughed when I saw that the kanji with the most strokes (29) means despondency...
• Kanji Alive is a web based dictionary, with animations;
• I found a workbook in Word format that take you through quite a few (like the Hiragana book that I've used).